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Photograph of HRH Princess Elizabeth, taken as she inspected the 4th Tank Battalion, Grenadier Guards, at Stockton House, Wiltshire on the 13th April 1943. The Princess is Colonel of the Regiment and wears a Grenadier Guards cap badge on her hat. She stands on a small podium facing the rows of soldiers. Lt Col John Davies stands with his baton under his arm with Col John Prescott behind the Princess. RQMS J Bolton stands with the Colour. A television camera can be seen mounted on a car behind them with an operator, and another row of people, possibly general public or friends and family of the battalion, stand watching on the right hand side of the image. From a photograph album containing 13 images and 2 press cuttings relating to the inspection of the 4th Tank Battalion, Grenadier Guards, by H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth, 1943.